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Hi !
I've owned my IPAQ 4150 for two and a half years (bought it off a colleague for £150 who had to sell a "gadget" to let his wife "allow him" to buy a top-range Sony Vaio !!!) ....
To begin with it was just my music player (1 gig cards, "pocket music" and decent TDK ear-phones .... wow !), and my address book.
Then I started loading games ... bridge, chess, sudoku, backgammon, scrabble .... to keep me "amused" on my very frequent rail & air travels.
Its become my "work" calculator too, and now that free or BT Openzone hot-spots are everywhere, a way of checking my mails without hauling laptop around ....
And its way the "prettiest" looking PDA I've ever seen .... five stars for the design team !
Questions :
Has it really been technically superceded in the 3 - 4 years since it appeared ... seems to me not looking at the specs of newer PDAs .... ???
Is there anything more stylish and compact on the market ?
Guess PDAs have become a technological "dead end", superceded with ugly mobile phone hybrids with tiny screens and limited PC capability & useability (Blackberrys .... ugh !).
Is there an obvious "upgrade" to buy when my faithfull and much abused 4150 expires (other than which a firmware upgrade wouldn't fix) ?
Right now I'm looking at buying machines off e-bay (< £100) and screen replacement kits from China ....
Think its those unique "pretty curves" that keep me so loyal to the h4150 as it still presents a "style and functionallity" statement way above the HDD iPOD, Xen, and its like !
OK I'm a "pretty girl", so never seen as the "geek" I really am .... except so many clunky PDAs make guys look nerdy ....
.... really feel the h4150 is a design icon, a one-off in the IPAQ range .... like a Versace handbag .... but way more useful !!!!
Laura
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